Welcome to the Mary State podcast. I'm Jimmy Evans. This is my wife, Karen. This podcast

exists to help every couple succeed in marriage. We're so glad that you're joining us today.

We're talking about how to have a blessed marriage. Specifically, we're talking about forgiveness

and marriage, which is a huge issue. And this is a teaching we're going to be going to

here in just a few minutes. So, Karen, we have a few questions from viewers.

When I got when I get home from work, my wife asks a lot of questions. I have told her I need

some space, but now she's giving me the silent treatment. Am I wrong here? No, there's there's

not necessarily anything wrong with that. I know that we went through a period of time when I would

come home and you'd ask questions and I never answered them because it annoyed me. I thought you

were nosy and I didn't want to feed them off. Just go sit on the recliner. Yeah. And that was bad.

I mean, I was not being a good communicator and I was not meeting your need for communication.

And it created a lot of problems in our marriage. And then there was a time that I began to

communicate. And what I said to you was, let me come in. Let me just unwind a little bit,

eat dinner and have a little time with the kids and stuff and then we'll have our time.

And so what we did was, and I'm just going to just drown this off and say from five to eight

at night was our time to eat and unwind and stuff. And after that was our time. And so we spent

time talking, we communicated, we everything. And so when it says here, I asked my wife to give me

some space and actually give me the silent treatment. Well, how much space? You know, you know,

it's like, I'm going to go out and play video games and I'll see you tomorrow. That's too much.

So I don't think it's wrong that a husband says, honey, I love talking to you. I love being with you.

Would you give me this little detox time? And that'll help me kind of really engage later on.

And I think that's reasonable. Well, I think in any marriage, you know, you're constantly trying

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